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https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/chimaera-release-announce-2021-10-14
Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,
Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera
4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the result of lots of
painstaking work by the team and extensive testing by the wider Devuan
community.What's new in Chimaera 4.0?
* Based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10.
* Your choice of init: sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC.
* Improved desktop support - virtually all desktop environments available
in Debian are now part of Devuan, systemd-free.
* New boot, display manager and desktop theming.
* Enhanced accessibility: installation via GUI or console can now be
accomplished via software or hardware speech synthesis, or using a
refreshable braille display, and Devuan Chimaera has the ability to
install desktop environments without PulseAudio, allowing speech
synthesis in both console and GUI sessions at the same time.
"without PulseAudio", eh? Speculations on the reason for that are welcome, he asked them knowingly... -- Ed.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @09:31AM
People have moved on/away. Hating on systemd is no longer sexy, but I'm sure it will come back into fashion one day. Meanwhile, Debian still ships sysvinit, Gentoo has elogind, Guix uses shepherd. Some run Devuan/MxLinux/Antix, and some have moved to FreeBSD.
Personally, I use s6 as service manager, but it does mean writing my own service files. That's not that big of a problem, because I already have everything stored as code, and storing a runscript along with the package/service configuration isn't that much of a problem. I mostly like how s6's use of exec chaining plays wonderfully with Selinux' concept of type transitions.